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Are Donor Countries Giving More or Less Aid?
Gupta, Sanjeev - 2006
The volume of foreign aid has increased during the last four decades, albeit with interruptions in certain years. Over time, the major recipients have changed: while the share of aid to Asia has diminished since the 1980s, that destined for sub-Saharan Africa has grown. There is some evidence...
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Managing reductions in aid inflows : assessing policy choices in Haiti
Moldovan, Ioana R.; Rousset, Marina; Walker, William … - 2018
A low-income country such as Haiti that confronts an environment of diminishing aid inflows must assess tradeoffs among the available policy options: spending cuts, monetization, sales of debt, or use of foreign reserves. To provide the analytical tools for this task, the paper draws from a set...
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Does conditionality mitigate the potential negative effect of aid on revenues?
Crivelli, Ernesto; Gupta, Sanjeev - 2016
This paper assesses whether conditionality in IMF-supported programs has helped offset the potential negative effect of …-income countries-shows that growing use of revenue conditionality by low-income countries partially offsets the depressing effect of … foreign grants on tax revenue, particularly on taxes on goods and services. The impact of conditionality is strong in …
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How Does Conditional Aid (Not) Work?
Ramcharan, Rodney - 2002
Does policy conditionality worsen domestic welfare, as governments are forced to attempt unpopular reforms resulting in … damaging protests, or does conditionality help implement reforms that otherwise would have been impossible? This paper analyzes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399551
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BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs
Mwase, Nkunde; Yang, Yongzheng - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679640
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Determinants of pre-pandemic demand for the IMF’s concessional financing
Hills, Timothy; Nguyen, Huy; Sab, Randa - 2021
This study focuses on identifying the main factors that influenced country-specific and aggregate demand for IMF concessional financing between 1986 and 2018 and makes within-period and out-of-period forecasts. We find that the external debt level, inflation, and real effective exchange rate are...
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Counterpart Funds and the Underlying Foreign Aid
Mulder, Christian B. - 1992
Counterpart funds generated through foreign currency or commodity aid have again become an issue of interest, in view of the substantial buildup of these funds. Contrary to the usual approach a model is developed in this paper, which takes account of the budgetary impact, supply-side and money...
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BRICs’ Philosophies for Development Financing and their Implications for LICs
Yang, Yongzheng - 2012
on the principles of South-South cooperation, focusing on mutual benefits without attachment of policy conditionality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396593
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What Matters for Financial Development and Stability?
Almarzoqi, Raja - 2015
This study aims to identify policies that influence the development of financial institutions as measured across three dimensions: Dept.h, efficiency, and stability. Applying the concept of the financial possibility frontier, developed by Beck & Feyen (2013) and formalized by Barajas et al...
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How do climate shocks affect the impact of FDI, ODA and remittances on economic growth?
Drabo, Alassane - 2021
The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...
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